Friday, June 15, 2012

I was prepping a vintage wedding dress for a shoot and was amused to find a single grain of rice in between the mesh lace and the bodice of the dress - probably stuck there since the 50s when someone first threw rice at a happy couple running down some church steps.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

I was perusing some of the Oscar de la Renta Fall 2012 photos and was surprised that they didn't even try to pretend that they weren't all about the 60's. Beaded shift dresses, wide cowl necks, and that hair! It is straight off of Brigitte Bardot's head.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

How fun are these old vintage charge cards I found at an estate sale the other day? They are slightly smaller than the credit cards we're used to now, and there is no magnetic strip across the back (embossers were used to imprint the raised information on the plastic cards onto a duplicate sales slip instead). They seem a little more stylin' than our current credit cards for some reason.

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Welcome to Animal Head Vintage

Some might say that our devotion to vintage borders on obsession. Let's just say that if we didn't have this shop to relieve a little of the things we buy, we'd be drowning in circle skirts, pinned cardigans and old typewriters.

We try to keep a tightly curated shop, full of unique, interesting, quality vintage items that we think deserve a second life. Our shop is run out of a tiny apartment in San Francisco, and we hope you find something truly awesome while shopping here.

This blog is a place to catalog our love of all things vintage, vintage inspired, and shop-related.